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Travis Carter and his colleagues at the University of Chicago decided to see whether a brief exposure to the American flag would have any effect on voting attitudes and intentions, even if no attention was drawn to that potent national symbol.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Politics Happens Through the Eyes
By Morry Kolman
One of the odd quirks of symbolism that Roland Barthes gives attention to in his book Mythologies is election photography—the pictures that are taken and shared of the people that want to represent us. Writing about the political posters he was seeing around France at the time, he reflected on the f... See more
By Morry Kolman
One of the odd quirks of symbolism that Roland Barthes gives attention to in his book Mythologies is election photography—the pictures that are taken and shared of the people that want to represent us. Writing about the political posters he was seeing around France at the time, he reflected on the f... See more
Jasmine Sun • Macrodoses #5: The Election
Such is the role Lopez never sought but has played on and off for decades now: J.Lo as pop villain—or, if not quite villain, a sort of hapless foil. Her famous feud with Mariah Carey in the early 2000s gave us the iconic quote from Carey after she was asked about J.Lo: “I don’t know her.” This was a rivalry born out of Carey’s divorce from her labe... See more
Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo?
The expanding polarization has made it painfully clear that something is not quite right.
William A. Richards • Beyond the Narrow Life
Expertise forces selectivity.
Blair Enns • The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Hamer worked to help others
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
“selective listening.”
LaTonya Wilkins • Leading Below the Surface
The terrible truth was that one way to increase a school’s API score was to encourage the weakest students to drop out—the API measured only active students.